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The making of feminist foreign policy

Sweden's foreign minister Margot Wallström has resigned. With her feminist foreign policy, she will leave a lasting legacy

Reuters

Boris Johnson: the Brezhnev Years

Contemporary neoliberal states like the United Kingdom share many of the pathologies of 20th century Soviet ones

Reuters

The challenge for Corbynomics

The surest way for Labour to redistribute power and wealth is by creating a wide safety net of universal basic services

Reuters

More than a marriage of convenience

Italy's Social Democrats and the Five Star Movement have far more in common than just the fear of Matteo Salvini

By Tobias Mörschel and Michael Braun

Pexels

Politics in the age of data

Progressive politics is floundering in the waves generated by Big Data — when it could be shaping the tide

By Karin Pettersson

Reuters

‘Not playing off the working class against women and migrants’

The working class has migrant background, it’s female, it’s as gay and lesbian as the rest of society, argues Tarik Abou-Chadi

By Tarik Abou-Chadi

Reuters

Salvini's miscalculation

Matteo Salvini played with fire — and burned himself. Now, Italy could see a new coalition of old enemies

By Tobias Mörschel

Reuters

The IMF’s latest victims

The International Monetary Fund’s bizarre belief in ‘expansionary austerity’ would be laughable if it were not so damaging

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

'Women are the perfect instrument for the neoliberal system'

Former Chilean presidential candidate Beatriz Sánchez on feminism, climate change and left-wing politics in Latin America

By Beatriz Sánchez

Reuters

The downfall of left-wing heroes

Tsipras, Corbyn, Iglesias, Sanders: in 2015 the new dawn of the left made political waves. Now, their stars are fading away

By Christos Katsioulis